Re: [gentoo-dev] Important instructions to manually compile kde apps

[Geert Bevin <gbevin@theleaf.be>]

Hi,

about the kde 2.2.2 ebuilds. I merged kde-base/kde and there are some
strange problems. When I start applications from within gnome, they
work. However the startkde doesn't and just shows a blank screen. Any
ideas?

Gert.

On Sun, 2001-11-25 at 21:07, Dan Armak wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Right now, with the "multi-kdelibs scheme", to compile a KDE app you need to 
> do:
> ---
> export KDEDIR=/usr/lib/kdelibs-$ver
> ./configure --prefix=/usr[/local]
> ---
> (/usr/local being recommended for manually compiled apps)
> Also, kdevelop requires a correct KDEDIR setting (like the one above) to run 
> configure scripts.
> 
> I want to put this KDEDIR setting into /etc/env.d. This may cause people who 
> don't read the above instructions to run configure without parameters, and 
> their app will then install into KDEDIR=/usr/lib/kdelibs-* which is bad. They 
> won't be expecting that because /usr/local is the default, but KDEDIR 
> overrides it in this case.
> 
> So, this needs to be put somewhere where many people will see it - a FAQ item 
> probably, but most people don't read the FAQs until they have a problem.
> 
> Suggestions? Where should this go?
> 
> -- 
> 
> Dan Armak
> Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team
> Matan, Israel
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